PREPOSITIONAL COLLOCATIONS GERMAN-CZECH. A COMPARATIVE CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS WITH FOCUS ON PREPOSITION-NOUN COLLOCATIONS

Abstract

Usual word combinations or collocations are an essential part of every language and are part of everyday communication specific to a single language. They are automatically recalled from memory as fixed concepts when speaking or writing. However, they cause difficulties for non-native speakers or L2 learners because they are conditioned by several aspects. The paper focuses on possibilities of corpus-based analysis of such units. Special attention is paid here to those word combinations which are realised with the inclusion of prepositions, specifically preposition-noun collocations with recursive zero article in the PREPCON project.

Keywords: collocation; prepositional collocation; word connection; preposition-noun connection; corpus-based analysis; German-Czech.